In today's video, we're going to see if the shower in the Storyteller Overland
lives up to all the hype. Let's go!
What is going on youtube! Greetings from very very windy Valley of Fire Nevada. I've got a
really awesome campsite here on blm it's free i'm on a peninsula and i'm surrounded
by drop-offs that drop off's probably like a thousand feet and then the one over here is
probably uh more like a hundred feet it's pretty awesome but in today's video we're
gonna we're gonna test out the shower in this storyteller and see if it lives up to all the hype
and maybe answer some of your questions about it but first i gotta get you know nice and sweaty
so i need a shower so what we're gonna do today is we're gonna go on a quick hike look at this
it's so amazing down here it looks like Tatooine from star wars or something
it's pretty cool but if you see here at the end of the peninsula here there's a little hiking trail
so we're gonna we're gonna take that hiking trail explore really quick and then we will come back
to the rig and we'll take a shower so let's go on that hike real quick
uh all right i think that's enough let's uh head back to the rig and get a shower all right so
welcome to my bathroom it got super super windy all of a sudden so i had to actually mic up for
this part of the video so hopefully you don't get too much wind noise and the camera isn't moving so
much i mean it's so windy on this ridge right now that it's kind of moving my van back and forth so
that's one of the potential disadvantages of being on a ridge like this in a high roof van like this
mercedes sprinter okay so like i mentioned this is the bathroom area in this sprinter it's really
not that much different than bathrooms and other sprinters like the revel the only difference is
i don't have walls up here my toilet can go down inside of the shower pan but i usually keep the
cassette toilet here because obviously it's at a good height for me to use the restroom but of
course i'm going to move this out of the way here real quick i'll probably move it up here up front
i know that seems kind of gross it's just a big p bottle but every black tank is just a big pea
bottle that you're going to have to handle and empty anyway so it's really no different to be
honest with you all right so i actually have to move these two i believe they got this nice
little towel rack here but you can't really keep it down when you open this this is my first time
actually using the shower so you're going to be learning right along with me here
i think yeah these get unscrewed here
and oh that's pretty cool i never noticed that before there's like a little mirror here this
is really cool that it has this and it looks like you could put like your shampoo and stuff in here
if you wanted to or your soap that's pretty cool first things first let me open this
uh shower pan here real quick all right so shower pans open
easy peasy i mean it's easy stuff here all right so we're gonna unstrap the strap put
this shower curtain down yeah it feels like military type of grade type stuff and it's
weighted these are really these weigh a lot these little things right here and they're also magnets
which is actually really cool so the door kind of shuts like those
row left screens you saw in my travato they just shut it's really cool so this is obviously
the shower head so let's take out this thing called a halo i don't know if this is going to
be easy or hard i've never done it before oh actually it's pretty easy we're already done
okay so i've already preheated the hot water doesn't take any time at all it uses diesel
fuel to heat it so that's pretty cool i don't have to have any propane or anything like that
or waste electricity i'm gonna try i'm gonna try it out real quick i'm gonna turn it on whoa
okay all right it's not coming out yet i don't know if i have to turn on some kind of pump
it's coming out but oh you know what i've got it locked okay so that's kind of concerning it's it
leaks a little bit oh well now that i got it all the way shut it only leaks a little but it's not
like it doesn't completely stop it from flowing so that kind of sucks actually um but it does
go full on shower mode here whoa that's really hot all right i'm gonna have to adjust the water
before i get in yeah i'm gonna obviously take off my clothes i'm not gonna film that and i'm
gonna jump in the shower and tell you how it is okay so it's really windy right now and i'm not
mic'd up so hopefully this doesn't sound too bad but first thing i notice is there's no place to
put the soap so i'm gonna put it out here on the little countertop here and then i'll just have to
reach for it i showed the little turn off on the shower head valve but it's actually better to just
use the water on and off so it doesn't free flow on you so yeah i'm going to turn it on right now
it's nice and warm almost perfect temperature so i'm gonna jump in here and and shower up a little
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miss any of my weekly videos okay i was in the navy for 20 years and i'm taking a navy shower
i just got myself wet and now i'm gonna take this soap lather myself all up then i'm going
to jump back under the water i'm going to turn it back on and the reason i'm doing that for for
probably obvious to most of you is to save water this thing only has a 24 gallon tank
which is pretty big for a van but still not a ton of water so let me jump in here and ladder up
all right i figured out a spot to put my rag when i'm not
you know scrubbing myself with it so i'm all lathered up so now i'm just going to rinse
myself off enjoy a little bit of the hot water for maybe 20 or 30 seconds after that because i love
long showers i'm just gonna try to grab a little bit of how that feels to have a long hot shower
all right so shower successful only took a couple of minutes this is my first time ever using this
so i'm sure i will get much more efficient uh doing this but it feels great to be able to shower
in my rig it was actually very very pleasant i was amazed how the hot water just shows up
i didn't have to wait for it to get hot it just was hot when i turned on the hot water
so that's pretty awesome i really like that i think i'm gonna dry off hill real quick
okay for the sake of the video i'm not gonna wait for it to dry i'm going to go ahead and roll it
up and show you how easy it is to store this thing obviously when i'm done with this video
i'll take the shower curtain back out let it completely dry but i just want to show you
kind of how simple this is so you just want to push it in
from the sides here and obviously grab it down by the bottom it's actually surprising how
dry this thing actually is already and you're going to roll it up you got these magnets here
so it's going to be thicker in the middle and now we want to kind of get this up in here you can see
the faucet is still dripping a little bit here so that's something i probably want to wait for
i probably want to wait leave it hanging there until it completely drips out
but for the sake of the video i want to show you this thing all rolled up all right so it's just
velcro straps here all right so the showers put up put up this little area right here too
you just kind of screw these in
it's a nice little design they're actually really easy to screw in and
shower's done bring the shower pan down and
toilet back in the toilet spot and now it's ready for me to use
whenever i need to use the bathroom again um and we can hang up our towel to dry
man it is so windy in here i don't know if you can hear that so windy but there we go okay so
now let's talk about the shower experience so in one word fantastic that is the first time i've
ever used this shower and while i had a couple little hiccups you saw how easy it was to set up
break down to shower inside of there it was a great experience it's exactly what i had hoped it
would be it's just so nice to be able to come back from a long hike all sweaty and be able to set up
the shower take a shower for a minute and then put the shower back up in a minute it's super super
super convenient which is like i mentioned exactly what i was looking for it was an amazing
shower experience and it's probably my number one favorite thing about this rig now maybe in a close
maybe closely followed by the rooftop deck which i also love okay so tell me what you think about
this shower setup would it work for you would you like it or would you hate it do you want a
built-in shower more like the revel or the travato or could you make this work like i have also if
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